Idiomarina loihiensis

A Microbial Biorealm page on the genus Idiomarina loihiensis

Classification

Higher order taxa

Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Alteromonadales; Idiomarinaceae; Idiomarina

Species

NCBI: Taxonomy

Idiomarina loihiensis

Description and significance

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Genome structure

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Cell structure and metabolism

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Ecology

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Application to Biotechnology

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Current Research

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References

Collyn, F., Roten, C., and Guy, L. "Solving ambiguities in contig assembly of Idiomarina loihiensis L2TR chromosome by in silico analyses". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 2007. Volume 271. p. 187-192.

Xu, Y., Glandsdorff, N., and Labedan, B. "Bioinformatic analysis of an unusual gene-enzyme relationship in the arginine biosynthetic pathway among marine gamma proteobacteria: implications concerning the formation of N-acetylated intermediates in prokaryotes". BMC Genomics. 2006. Volume 7.

Shibata, S., Alam, M., and Aizawa, S. "Flagellar Filaments of the Deep-Sea Bacteria Idiomarina loihiensis Belong to a Family Different from those of Salmonella tymphimurium". Journal of Molecular Biology. 2005. Volume 352. p 510-516.

Hou, S., Saw, J., Lee,K., et al. "Genome sequence of the deep-sea γ-proteobacterium Idiomarina loihiensis reveals amino acid fermentation as a source of carbon and energy". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2004. Volume 101.

Donachie, S., Hou, S., Gregory, T., et al. "Idiomarina loihiensis sp. nov., a halophilic γ-proteobacterium from the Lo'ihi submarine volcano, Hawai'i". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. Volume 53. p. 1873-1879.

Edited by student of Rachel Larsen